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    A Study Guide for Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies"
    A Study Guide for Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies"
    A Study Guide for Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies"
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    A Study Guide for Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies"

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    A Study Guide for Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535841320
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      A Study Guide for Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies" - Gale

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      To the Ladies

      Mary Chudleigh

      1703

      Introduction

      Mary, Lady Chudleigh's To the Ladies, written more than three centuries ago, is one of the first stirrings of the feminist movement in Western culture. An aristocratic woman born into wealth and privilege, Chudleigh paints a picture of marriage as an institution no different from slavery for women. Chudleigh draws on the work of her friend and fellow feminist Mary Astell, a prominent philosopher of the period, and reshapes the ancient tradition of Stoic philosophy into a critical tool for exposing the unequal position of women in British culture. To the Ladies was published in 1703 in Chudleigh's collection Poems on Several Occasions and can also be found in the 1993 collection The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh.

      Author Biography

      Mary Lee was baptized on August 19, 1656, in Devonshire, England. The date of her birth is not known but must have been not long before. The Lee family was well established in the British aristocracy. On March 25, 1674, Lee married George Chudleigh, a young man of her own class, and acquired the title Mary, Lady Chudleigh. She had six children, four of whom died before the age of eight. The first (also Mary, who lived only four months) was born in 1676, and the remainder came about every two years beginning in 1683. So much is known from parish records kept by the Anglican Church. Not very much else is known about Chudleigh's life because there survive only five of her letters (which happen to be printed together with The Poetical Works of Philip, Late Duke of Wharton) and a very brief biography by George Ballard in his 1752 Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, based on his inquiries made to her family a generation after Chudleigh's death. Another scant source is the set of her introductions to her published works. As a result of her sketchy biography, scholars working on Chudleigh often rush to reconstruct the details of her life from her poetry, a very unsound procedure.

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